A phone you can change and make it suit you!!! Small and stylish (Nokia 3200)

Member Name: c013310

Product:	Nokia 3200
Date:	08/07/05 (757 review reads)
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Advantages: Camera, radio, wap, voice recorder, flashlight

Disadvantages: Picture quality and memory storage

The nokia 3200 in my opinion, is one of the most stylish & funky phones i have had the pleasure of using! I brought this phone about a year ago and its still going strong. It is very popular for secondary school children obviously because you can change its cover and its everything a child could want for a resonable price! Anyone would appreciate this phone but i do not recommend it if you want good camera quality.

Im not saying the camera is not good quality, it takes pictures in colour but i have seen better quality pictures. The radio is a great pointer and can even be put on loudspeaker though you can't take out the handset while on loudspeaker but that isn't much of a problem! You can record songs using the voice recorder and even set them as your ringtone. I have even come to find the flashlight handy- just when you don't have a torch- it is very bright and easy to put on and off.

Now what you were all waiting for; changing the covers. I have to admit i was attracted to this phone because of this and it is something different espically when you can make your own. All i have to say is that there isn't many ready made covers on the nokia site, you get two holographic covers when you buy it but obviously you can not make your own holographic ones unless you had the time. There was a site on the nokia site where they gave you tools to make your own covers and they had some you could just print off but i prefered making my own even though it took ages. What i would do was find loads of pictures i liked and print them off but when i had cut round the template and put it in my phone the pictures didn't show up too good because my printer wasn't so good, so i would say if you wanted to make your own covers using the computer you'll need a good printer. But you don't have to use the computer usually i made a collage using pictures from magazines wich was really effective!!! (You will need a nokia 3200 cover cutter to make them unless you want to spend ages drawing and cutting out!)O I got mine from my local market at quite a cheap price.

You have may have heard bad things about the buttons but honestly after a while you get used to them and now i have no problem. You can even buy different colour keypads at the moment!

The phone has a lot of storage for messages and on average can hold about 60 which is including sent items. But what i do find a problem is the storage on pictures as they hold about 60 as well. I don't know about you but i don't like deleting my picuters and at the moment my gallery is full and i can't take anymore pictures so this is a bit of a pain. There are different picture modes which are standard photo, portrait, night mode and self timer ( so you can stand the phone up on a table and take pictures).

Also, you can put java games on your phone and you already have two games on there. I have managed to put on another game and i still think i can put on more! Connecting the phone up to the computer is easy but you need a DKU-5. But i still needed to buy a program to be able to store and print my pictures off and i still haven't got round to doing this! ( you do not need a DKU-5 to transfer games etc).

Overall this phone is great apart from the low camera quality and it does get scratched easily. It's relatively ligh, small and overall i give it the thumbs up for people who would like a stylish,popular phone with just a camera!!

Thanks for reading!

Summary: I think this phone is great and is resonably priced for the features it has, anyone could have it!

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